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NCLEX Nutrition

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1. What color vegetables are to be consumed more of?






2. These nutrients required for proper growth - development - body repair - fluid and electrolyte balance - produce enzymes - hormones and antibodies






3. What is RDA of protein?






4. What water soluble vitamins are easily excreted from body?






5. What lab value shows iron stores of visceral body protein?






6. When does BMR decrease?






7. What foods have high quality protein?






8. What is normal albumin levels?






9. What illness is a direct result of vitamin D deficiency?






10. Fats can lead to some medical problems






11. What foods are carbohydrates and provide energy?






12. How much vegetables are to be eaten per day?






13. What is the function of vitamin C?






14. What function is vitamin A?






15. What does basal metabolic rate BMR calculate?






16. What does DASH stand for?






17. Promote normal metabolism - and prevent this nutrient from being used for energy






18. Where can you find good sources of vitamin K?






19. What problem may occur if vitamin K deficient?






20. Insufficient intake of carbohydrate results in these two nutrients being used as energy






21. What orange vegetables are good to eat?






22. What clinical administration is used and checked by albumin - prealbumin - and transferrin and overall nutrtion?






23. What foods are good sources of carbohydrates?






24. What foods are needed for this deficiency of nutritional anemia - or neural tube defects?






25. Sources of fats






26. Waist circumference correlates apple versus pear body type and reflects risk pattern for disease






27. How much sodium may be consumed per day?






28. What type of patients are to utilize nutritional screening initiatives NSI?






29. What milk products are avoided in the pyramid and not a good supply of calcium?






30. What type of albumin levels will show malnutrtion?






31. These cannot be synthesized by body and must be obtained by diet






32. What is the recording tool for all foods/beverages consumed in last 24 hours includes time - location - portion?






33. If patient. has beriberi - or wernicke korsakoff syndrome what type of foods would be needed?






34. What is the function of vitamin E?






35. What foods are good if patient. is vitamin A defecient and/or suffer from night blindness or xeropthalmia?






36. What is normal BMI?






37. How many calories/gram is protein?






38. How much grains are to be eaten per day?






39. Where can you get more vitamin D?






40. Good overall indicator of nutritional status becaUse of long half life and maintain until malnutrtion occurs






41. What are the 5 major functions of vitamins?






42. How long should a food record or journal is analyzed for nutrient content?






43. When does BMR increase?






44. This tool assesses each body system for nutrent excess or deficiency






45. How much meat/beans should be eaten?






46. What blood levels are checked for decrease in iron?






47. Protein stores show short term changes of which lab value






48. If patient. is deficient with this vitamin - what foods will help scurvy or bleeding gums?






49. How much fruit is to be eaten/day?






50. If protein stores become depleted which can neagatively affect immune system of which lab value